Mute wishes to bring attention to the body as a shifting space of existence, in an attempt to celebrate it and thus liberate it to its unstructured existence, to the extended landscapes, at once intimate and plural, that tactile and perceptual experience opens up as the threshold of knowledge of its functioning is crossed and habits are deconstructed.
Through a process of learning and deconstruction, which develops from a very significant relationship with the ground and with gravity, and which is based on the principles of weight and pause, the body inhabits a condition of silence and openness such that it turns its gaze to the other from itself, intercepting moment by moment the forces that pass through it and trespassing through an invisible network of infinite connections. The body is here observed in its constant becoming a medium, a channel through which movement, caught in its constantly nascent state, manifests itself .
Mute thus wishes to guide the viewer through a space that transcends the perception of inside and outside, to happen to movement alone, as pure articulation, infinitely remodeled, of the constant desire for conjunction to the other that inhabits us.
Bio
The choreographic research Martina Gambardella (Naples, 1993) is oriented towards the continual deconstruction and expansion of the potential space encompassing body matter, all through the activation of learning processes starting from constant relationship with the other and with the places they inhabit. Associate artist of CodedUomo Choreography and Research, she is the creator of the works Mute, Error and Error#1. She trained as a dancer between Leeds, at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance and Milan at the Centro Internazionale di Movimento e Danza. In 2016, she achieved a Post-graduate Diploma in Developing Artistic Practice at the London Contemporary Dance School.
Credits
Choreography and dance Martina Gambardella
Original music and saxophones Giuseppe Giroffi
Objects and drums Stefano Costanzo
Lighting design and technical assistance Alessia Massai
Production CodedUomo
Co-production Centre Chorégraphique National de Nantes (CCNN) in the framework of the residency project supported by the Ministry of Culture/DRAC Pays de la Loire, in collaboration with BASE Milano with the support of MiC -DIREZIONE GENERALE SPETTACOLO in the framework of Boarding Pass Plus 2022/2024.
Project supported through creative residency by Associazione Sosta Palmizi, and selected for the call Boarding Pass Plus 22-34 with the support of ASSOCIAZIONE AREA06/SHORT THEATRE in collaboration with Festival d’Automne a Paris with the support of CENTQUATRE-PARIS and the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris.
Research selected for Più_Erbacce supported by C.I.M.D Centro Internazionale Movement and Dance and for Around a process of Making- Festival Marosi 2022 (Stromboli).
Selected for the Young Author Dance Showcase 2023- Network Anticorpi XL
